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Home Front: Politix
Democrats file 9 law suits in Florida
2004-10-27
Democrats in Florida already are pursuing nine election-related lawsuits, accusing state election officials of conspiring to disenfranchise minority voters. Led by the Florida Democratic Party, the People for the American Way, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the AFL-CIO, the lawsuits target, among others, Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, President Bush's brother. The suits say Republican officials refused to count provisional ballots, improperly disqualified incomplete voter registrations, established overly restrictive rules to disproportionately hurt minority voters and actively sought to disenfranchise blacks.

Matt Miller, a spokesman for the Kerry campaign, said Republicans are "trying to scare people away from the polls." But Mrs. Hood's spokesman, Alia Faraj, described the lawsuits as politically motivated, saying they were eroding public confidence in the election process by challenging "every single law we are following." The DNC has 10,000 lawyers on call, including six "SWAT squads" that are ready to deploy on the orders of Mr. Kerry and his campaign staff. The team is headed by Steven Zack, whose law partner, David Boies, argued for former Vice President Al Gore before the Supreme Court in 2000.
Posted by:Mark Espinola

#10  RN, I really hope your are correct because a 'slam dunk' would almost force the Kerry Brownshirts to clam up... we would hope.
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-10-27 7:12:54 PM  

#9  And I thought the surest indicator was the Redskins game before the election. If the 'skins win the incumbent wins. If they lose the challenger wins. Sucks being a Packer fan this week.
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2004-10-27 6:09:55 PM  

#8  St Johns jack? Or Nassau?
Posted by: Shipman   2004-10-27 4:11:45 PM  

#7  Not wanting to stick my neck out too far, nor stand alone on my prediction of a BUSH landslide victory. Allow me to stand among the following folks that are more learned on the subject of scientific guessing:

As a professor of economics at Yale (Ray C. Fair), is known for creating an econometric equation that has predicted presidential elections with relative accuracy. His latest prediction shows that Bush will receive 57.5 percent of the two-party votes.

Larry Kudlow says the economic recovery makes President Bush's re-election all-but-certain - and he's predicting a landslide with House and Senate coattails.

Associate professor of political science at UMass-Amherst Jeffrey Sedgwick used an analysis of various polls to predict a "slam dunk" for Bush and a 15 to 20 seat Republican pickup in Congress.
Posted by: RN   2004-10-27 9:54:28 AM  

#6  I live in Florida, on the First Coast, in a small county with a 50/50 split of retirees and working families. We can vote early, up to 15 days before the election day, November 2nd. So, I voted yesterday. No problems but had to drive to the election office to do it. Maybe 10 to 15 waiting to go inside and 10-15 voting. But it was consistent. No hassles, no haranguers, etc. and no lawyers but as I said we are small and traditionally very strong Republican. It will be interesting to know the percentage of voters voting early.

Especially in Florida the slogan should be:

Vote early in case your dead by Election day!
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2004-10-27 9:46:21 AM  

#5  If the difference in the ballots measure within the margin of error we are in for a real lenghty mess, although I still can't believe that this race will be as close as its being portrayed.
The only real winners as usual will be the lawyers.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2004-10-27 9:39:47 AM  

#4  'Provisional ballots' will be this election's hot button issue. Being that they are paper ballots for those 'unreported moves', no record of voter, previously moved voters, jurisdictional disputes (the main problem) incorrect precincts, or voters which did, or refused to produce proper indentification are all grounds under voting provisional, since no one can be turned away nor told they can not vote.

If there is a election eve tally a lot closer then I envision (Bush 52.3% Kerry 46.8%) then the provisionals ballots, which have to be counted by hand, could really slow things up and will likely head before the courts in 4 to 8 states. It could be weeks of harsh legal battles, a lot worse then Florida in 2000.
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-10-27 9:11:11 AM  

#3  To look into the face of pure evil, see Dawn of the Dead
Posted by: badanov   2004-10-27 8:25:14 AM  

#2  The team is headed by Steven Zack, whose law partner, David Boies, argued for former Vice President Al Gore before the Supreme Court in 2000.

...and that worked out real well for 'em.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-10-27 8:14:09 AM  

#1  For all you Linux guys and gals it appears the Democrat "SWAT team" leader Steven Zack is a parner in Boies law firm which is involved in the SCO vs IBM suit. Evil is as evil does.

This whole deal is sureal. All I can say is my ballot better get counted or I am going to give a lawyer a memory of their stupidity.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-10-27 4:19:23 AM  

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